The UN human rights chief said that it "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing."

Rohingyas are described as the 'world's most persecuted minority group'. There are about 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and the recent turmoil has made the world take a notice of the injustice.

"The Myanmar government should stop pretending that the Rohingya are setting fire to their own homes and laying waste to their own villages," Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday.

Take a look at pictures from what has been termed by the UN as the biggest humanitarian crisis:

A group of Rohingya refugee people walk towards Bangladesh after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh.REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Rohingya refugee men carry an old woman as she is unable to walk after crossing the border, in Teknaf, Bangladesh.REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain